Title :
Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers for mode-locked laser operation near 1 μm
Author :
Schmidt, Andreas ; Rivier, Simon ; Steinmeyer, Gunter ; Petrov, Valentin ; Griebner, Uwe ; Yim, Jong Hyuk ; Cho, Won Bae ; Lee, Soonil ; Rotermund, And Fabian
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst., Berlin
Abstract :
Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers were designed for passive mode-locking near 1 mum. Using Yb:KYW and Yb:KLuW, nearly transform-limited sub-150 fs pulses were generated at 1037 nm and 1048 nm, respectively.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; laser beams; laser mode locking; lutetium compounds; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; potassium compounds; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; C; KLu(WO4)2:Yb; KY(WO4)2:Yb; mode-locked laser operation; passive mode-locking; single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers; transform-limited pulse generation; wavelength 1037 nm; wavelength 1048 nm; Carbon nanotubes; Dielectric substrates; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Pulsed laser deposition; Ultrafast optics; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.5680) Rare earth and transition metal solid-state lasers; (160.4236) Nanomaterials;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
